Does this count as a near death experience?

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About 6 years ago my car needed minor repairs so I brought it into the Chevy dealership. They told me it would be an hour so I decided to take a walk down the busy street to a McDonald’s to kill time. I was a about halfway there on the sidewalk and I was passing a bus stop. Here in California a lot of them just consist of a bench and a pole with the bus number attached to it. The bench is right on the edge of the sidewalk.

As I passed, there was a girl sitting on the bench and a guy was standing a little behind her. I glanced up and he was holding something that looked exactly like a gun! He was holding it like a gun and intently staring into my eyes and aiming it at my chest and he had the exact stance of someone about to shoot a gun. I freaked. I really thought the guy was going to shoot me at point blank range. I screamed, “Are you crazy”? And the girl looked up and said, “Yes, he is”.

After about three seconds I looked closer and I saw it wasn’t a gun in his hands, he was holding an umbrella. Now when he pointed it at me, I really thought I was going to die. Does this count as a near death experience?

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I’, no expert… But shouldn’t that be only up to you to decide? I think an “expert” opinion might be worsening sz symptoms…?

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Do you mean your opinion might worsen my symptoms? Or do you mean I thought I was going to die because of my worsening symptoms?

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No, what I meant was, that I don’t believe that any person other than yourself are able to say whether or not it was a legit experince.

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Fair enough. Thanks.

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I was held at gunpoint, it was my room matre, and he was drunk and being belligerent. I said, “go ahead and shoot me, I’m ready !!” and he lowered the gun. I think I would probably beg for my life or something, but I was so miserable in Florida I just provoked him. I immediately moved out to another trailer there in the park.

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I have had several as I think most people do during their lives. When ever they have happened to me I just think wow,that was really close, but just carry on with life like it goes on with or without us all anyway. It’s a bit amusing when these events occur.

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I think if you feel your life was in danger… and you survived… I think it counts.

I’m glad you were Ok.

There was on time I mistook a fake water gun for a real one and in a panic reaction… I almost jumped into oncoming traffic. So glad the person behind the wheel had good breaks.

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I’d say it does, but not in the same guise as they’re currently talked about on the internet. Those people go clinically dead and have out of this world spiritual experiences.